First off they picked clones here, Dean Butler and Leigh McCloskey being clones of each other. By that I don't mean mad scientist/lab engineered. I mean same type: handsome dark blonde actors, with extremely similar personalities, so much so that they're near impossible to tell apart. Second: rehashed fantasies. Third: Tattoo is painfully absent and sorely missed. (Whoever cast Hewitt here, what were they thinking!? He's even worse a counterpart for Roarke than Julie was!)
So I glossed over the war story: 2 old dudes drink magical Champagne and turn young instantly. (Ok, 2 young actors get their bad ageing makeup removed.) GET TV is airing them and now is starting the next one, which is another war (WWII) fantasy. Yawn! Overdone and boring. The dominant story was incredibly idiotic and annoying. One woman (a Tammy Wynette clone... where do they find these!? Last time I watched a Dolly Parton clone, who talked and acted like her, Loretta Lynne!), played by an actress who was a sore sight for eyes and whom I'd never heard of before, was a terrible casting choice: she looked like Dean Butler's (Almanzo or Half Pint's husband on LHOTP) mother.
Props to Dean Butler: he actually had the acting chops to look delighted to see her and boy was she hard to look with her boy cropped hair giving her an appearance of almost double his age. And she wants a baby with him? What did Roarke do, give her robot or a brainwashed "yes Ma'am!" clone?? Unbelievable. He meets this homely woman, she's like "let's make a baby" and he's like "aw whight!"?? Zero personality but good looking actor.
Highlights of the show: Mr. Roarke wearing his black tuxedo. He always did look so much better in black than in his cream suit or white tux. Fun scene: when Mr. Roarke gently removes Tammy Wynette's purse and redirects her attention to prevent her from leaving. Smooth move, LOL!
Without spoilers, and this is F.i. So we already know how it ends anyway (unless you're watching the terrible David Birney episode, LOL!) but show ends with Tammy Wynette's clone sing... I mean breaking our ears. That bad. Just as bad as Loretta Lynne. Truth be told, I watched this on GET TV, so I might bump it up another star (unless they cut off another "singing" scene in favor of those green lipped mussel oil pills, LULZ! In which case I may remove a star, for double breaking my ears.) The cinematography (and audio) is dreadful on GET TV but greatly improves on Tubi, so I shall watch it there another time. But really, nothing to sneeze at here. 4/10 from me.
